Appeals

One of the most interesting things I learned this semester were the diffrent appeals and how to accuratly use them, as in what appeals to use in certain types of papers. The first appeal we learned about was ethos which is an appeal that is based on the character of the speaker, relying solely on the reputation of another. This is something that we used in our research paper. We took the information from sources and used them to varify our points on a topic. The key is to use credible sources such as with my paper since it was over ADHD is was smart to use sources relating to medicine and medical research. Another appeal we learned about is logos. Logos is an appeal based on logic or reason, this kind of appeal is usually used with companies or large corporations, and sometimes with scholarly documents. This is because they are in a trying to give you the cold hard facts that are reasonable so you will buy their product or realize what the are talking about through searching through your own basic reason. The last appeal we learned about it pathos which is personally the kind of writinng that I like to do this appeal, appeals to readers emotions. Advertisements are usually veered toward your emotions, when you see those poor african children you want to send money because it hurts your heart to see them living the way they do, because they got ahold of your emotions. All of these appeals are important to know about because you can use them in a variety of places, so I was very interested in learing about them this semester.